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Intet

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Registered: 2026-01-31

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Disabling Temporal Dither possible on new compositor?

Hi!
I just heard about the change in the roadmap and the switch to a Wayland only compositor.

While I read that there will be feature parity, from experience I know that sometimes the scope shrinks and some things will be left on the wayside. I want to express my interest early in preserving the ability to disable temporal dither from the OS side, as it can be on x11, but not on Wayland. I am aware that the graphics card driver and the monitor both also need to support the ability to turn it off.

I am flicker sensitive and get headaches from the flicker caused by temporal dither.
This is an important accessibility feature for me. Luckily I am not as much affected like some to whom this can cause the triggering of seizures.

Unfortunately it often gets not taken seriously how difficult this condition can make modern life where more and more invisible to the eye flicker based technologies are introduced. Finding monitors, ceiling lights, phones, tvs etc are all requiring extensive research and the complete avoidance of OLED (and old CRT) for screens which is getting difficult. Unfortunately this formerly widely accepted issue hits upon a lot of push back lately. I made a lot of bad experience of people not recognizing it as the medical problem it is and tossing it instead in a bucket of esoteric mumbo jumbo. Please dear commenters read up on this issue first or contact a doctor with questions about it, before disbelieving.

Thanks for reading
I hope I was able to spread some awareness

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,463

Re: Disabling Temporal Dither possible on new compositor?

Hello and welcome.

I just heard about the change in the roadmap and the switch to a Wayland only compositor.

I'm not sure where you heard this but it is not correct. Yes, Xfce is and has been adding wayland support (4.20 has preliminary support), but X11 support is not being removed. It will continue to be supported in newer versions of Xfce. From the recent announcement regarding the window manager, xfwm4 will continue to be maintained for x11 and a new xfwl4 component will be added to support wayland with a new Xfce-built wayland compositor.

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